Monday, May 3, 2010

one of the 99 Sacred Names of the Internet

We are the facebots! We are delighted to be your friends.¡Somos los facebots! Nos encanta ser tus amigos.

On december 2009, the profile of Debasheesh Parveen appeared on Facebook:

Debasheesh Parveen is one of the 99 Sacred Names of the Internet. It is also an algorithm:

1. Debasheesh Parveen takes a random news headline from the Al Jazeera feed.2. The headline is distorted using a text-manipulation algorithm.3. One of the words of the headline is chosen to search for an image on the Internet.4. The headline and the image are posted to Debasheesh Parveen's Facebook profile.

This happens automatically, at regular intervals.

Debashesh Parveen's words can be used as an oracle to foretell the future.

It is also said that Debasheesh Parveen is well-versed in the Alchemic Arts, and is willing to share the wisdom with Facebook users.